ah, a with you is now completely following the american dictate. europe has lost its independence to serve american interest in the geopolitical containment of russia and china. russia is foreign ministers, thanks. b, e, a u. s. is conducting a proxy war against moscow. india, great. beijing claims washington per stealing oil from syria thing 60 tankers fell at the country's top rewards not being looted by us forces. just this also ahead on the program today that recent survey shows that people in india think the u. s. military threat to the nation coming in 2nd only after

neighbors. and somehow forget to think a substitute to the american dollars dominance. looking to that bricks group of countries or a solution with where we are counting the program from today across the world. welcome to moscow and then use our on our tape. the european union has lost its independence to washington, the nato military alliance. those direct words coming from russia's foreign minister during an annual use conference where he summed up the events of the past year. you want to say use the e. u is now completely following the american dictate. europe has lost its independence. in a joint declaration, explicitly states that europeans are subjugated to nato's essentially continuing an

obligation to serve american interests in the geopolitical containment of russia and china. one of the main points it seems to be that 2022 definitely showed a tendency that has been developing for many years to create a development to bring to the forefront. that the west is trying to impose its way of thinking and its imperialist views on the rest of the world. for example, as her gay elaborate mentioned that nato has been fighting russia through you crate . and that even an academic study that was published in the west has shown facts and details revealing that and also that with the help all that's proxies and it satellites, they've been developing this for years to renew the stuff for the u. s. has now ship to coalition, including virtually all european countries about natal member states, and you states and others. and now they are waging a war by proxy against russia using ukraine as a proxy in order to solve the russian matter. just like hitler wanted to find

a solution to a jewish problem, they're doing the same right now. trigger lever of also mentioned that the sanctions that are being used by the wes are aimed at not only weakening russia and trying to get it to play along to what it wants. so russia to do comply but also with rushes. i lies another so called undesirable nations, trying to force them to follow suit and do the same thing, follow washington's rhetoric. there was an interesting question at some point, a, when a journalist asked, how can russia claim to respect the un charter and international law when it started this special military operation? and the journalist asked, how can the russia accused the west of doing something that itself has done now? just women in the city mortgage europe. there is an opinion among europeans that russia did not show its best side by deciding to take military action while the rest of the impetuous countries that have bombed half of the planet, or violate an international law in the same way in order to cease territory. so we

are victims of disposing griefs. we have a threat from turkey. how would you argue with this position? cuz the 1st that a she, russia has not shown its best qualities. an interesting formulation about 300 times after the end of the cold war of the united states invaded some one else's territory, lay up with you. their goal in places like central america is the liquidation of threats to the world. and they were offended, for example, by saddam hussein and gadhafi. in yugoslavia, they simply decided to destroy the balkans for the sake of germany. but there was no question of any tribunals or a decision to investigate crimes. they said we will put you under sanctions. we defended our security from ukraine after they made a springboard for an attack on russia. and secondly, the humiliation of russians in the kuta ta in 2014. when the west sided with the anti russian regime without an attempt to dial back, the bombing of god's can odessa no one investigated. there were no tribunals that

minsk agreements was just to give you cream more time and weapons. years ago, we were the only ones who saw the implementation of the minsk agreements, all the others were cheaters. another to some point was that to us regular us for that lesson globalization as collapsing and washington is trying to retain that top spot by. going as far as a legitimate means to achieve that, any means possible, trying to create a rift between countries to make sure that the majority of it. so it's a rhetoric also understand you were there. among many, many journalists from all around the world, was it, was it just ukraine or what are some other topics that level of touch down on as well? no, i was not just the crane. we also heard about the standoff between as that of i, john and armenia with questions about japan. but we could see that there was a particular focus more on asia. and that's a natural because as we'll see in russia has been shifting more towards these,

especially after the special military of operations began. and we saw the reaction from the west with the sanctions and tried to restrict rasa and so we can russia. so there was a particular emphasis in particular on anti and ross's relationship with china. the shuttle sure news, this little news publication are relations with china are going to the best times in history. the leaders of our country say the same thing. china characterizes relations like this. the alliance is not an alliance, but in some ways even stronger. our relations are respectful, based on a balance of interests. there is no need to look for information about the west attempts to bring discord into our relations. they don't consider us an immediate threat. china is considered a long term challenge. they understand that their forces are running out in opposition to the historical trend of the formulation of the multi polar world. we see that the west is trying to bring the scored between us. they are trying to defeat us in order to then convince russia to become partner of the west that has

forgiven sanctions and will not interfere and ideally help to restrain china. i do not know which of their analysts develop these theories, but they are out of touch with real life. my colleagues, marina cost or ever unwary sushi, talking through the many topics, touched upon by sir gale, ever off of his annual media conference on wednesday night. if you'd like to dig deeper into, that's r t dot com as he covered, ah, western leaders are once again in urging allies to send more heavy weapons to key if the officials also continued to suggest peace can only be achieved through warfare and ukraine's victory on the battlefield then order for the war, 2 and rushes, aggression must fail. that is why we are continuously supplying ukraine with large quantities of arms in close consultation with all patmos,

a ukraine should get all the military equipment it needs and it can handle. and this also includes the advance system. we are in a decisive face of the war. therefore, it is important that we equip ukraine with a weapons. it needs to win. mil to support for ukraine is the fastest way to peace . while the narrative dishwasher is now 12 western leaders urging berlin to send leopard to bottle tanks to ukraine. recently the u. k. defense minister also confirm that london will be sending 14 challenger 2 tanks to key if that's would become the 1st instance when a western nation has sent main battle tanks to ukraine's forces. well, to discuss all of that, let's welcome live on to the program. co director of the international action center sora flounder here. most welcome sora. just starting by perhaps taking those words from western leaders. come piece in ukraine only be achieved by defeating

russia on the battlefield. well, of course not really what, what's being discussed at the world economic forum at davos a meeting of the super rich and they're retainers and handlers and functionaries is how to continue war war. that's always on the agenda. nato is always part of it. new demands for weapons, always part of it. and this year the topic is ukraine. how to move more weapons to ukraine and new proposals. it's going to be tanks, missile, batteries, anything to keep it going. and at the same time, what's happening with the economy in the west, what's happening particularly in the european union. it's a way of pushing that off the agenda because this endless war and the sanctions that have been imposed on russia are disastrous throughout europe. disastrous. and

they are paying a very heavy price. so instead, let's talk about sending more weapons. that's one area of super profits. and one year they're talking about war on afghanistan to another war on iraq, making threats on iran. threats in the straits of taiwan. no matter where they want war, they want more weapons, they have big appeals for it. this is the agenda that they set. and as always, part of the davos meetings. and is that behind what we just saw, sort of from the nato chief saying, i quote that conflict is entering at decisive phase word out rhetoric like that is that's to get the people in those countries that their leaders are sending weapons and more and more money from taxpayers is not to get them on the side or do you think there's something more behind while this is really a public relations event,

it's lining up countries for more weapons, more arm sales and billions more. and somehow that's the path to peace. of course, it's not, it's not even intended to be. it is a path to us domination, hedge money, and that is what is slipping. they can all agree to more weapons, but it will not change the failure of this war. this war was intended as a way of, of breaking russia that has not succeeded. it was a way of totally unraveling. the russian economy that has not happened. what has happened is disaster for the ukraine in this proxy war, and a real unraveling of the economy throughout europe as they are now totally depended on the u. s. so this, this arrangement is very beneficial, of course,

to us economy in this immediate moment. but in the long run, it's dollar dominance. it's, it's economic, it's political, it's military dominance is being completely challenged in ukraine today. and in many places around the world. because as we know, the whole global south is refusing to go along with the sanctions. so they're using weapons alone to try to change this equation. it will not succeed. can i touch upon what's happening across the atlantic between our lives? it seems to europe have lately been more active in sending lethal aid or talking about it at least to ukraine than the u. s. are you surprised by that? well, it's the only thing they have to offer what's, what's in their store houses a weapons. and that will in turn force them to buy more weapons in the future from from the u. s. so it is

a completely losing equation. but so much of the meetings at davos are meant for public consumption. they put out always some plan. they're going to tax the super rich. of course, they never will. they're going to deal with climate. of course, they don't at all. and then what's going on in the background is really the plans for continuing or, and that's why they're where ukraine comes in. it's essential for them to have a military agenda and the european powers they know this and yet it is for them, it's pulling them down into a completely dependent relationship, making live an rti sorrowful under the co director of the international action center activist organization. thank you very much, sir. thank you. ok, let's turn attention to india, where a recent polls among citizens us through an up some eye opening results,

including the u. s. taking 2nd place among what people view as the top security threat to the nation. ortiz, india, corresponding runjun sharma picks up the story. and now the ball is saying that us is considered as a 2nd top thread going ahead of focused on and boxed on. remember, in the shares of he's 3 or military conflict with border disputes as well. induct ever since the creation of focus on 1947, india had trouble diplomatic relationship with the and a u. s. in fact, interestingly, comes ahead all boxed on and in this particular so the ordinary citizens from across the country was interviewed. of course, they saw china as the top thread, but 22 percent saw us. the 2nd most threat, as far as this pool is concerned, while the world's 2 largest democracies would seem to make for natural partners, especially given their mutual mistrust of china. indians have strategic reasons to

be wary of the world's western superpower as tensions between washington and beijing increase the indian public may be worried about getting caught in the middle of a us china conflict that the stabilizes regional security. putting india at risk. well, that's interesting considering india has rather warm relationships with the west, also us as india's top trading partner in the world. and you and then when you look at this, so be of people are seeing that us as a 2nd most threat when it comes to india. also, when it comes to china now the top that lives in the so be 43 percent. the indians come to the china, the top military threat. remember, india in the recent boss has had trouble a border situation with shy not in 2020 india on china. so one of the bloodiest commissions in history where several soldiers also had lost their life. and also

last year in 2022. another class between india and china we saw now another interesting aspect of this particular survey is that indians are likely to blame us its allies and keep for the conflict in ukraine. and it's only around 38 percent. so less than 40 percent indians that come to the more school responsible for the ongoing conflict in ukraine. now it's around 26 percent people that see united states us to be blamed and around 18 percent. people think nato is to begin . so 44 percent there compared to the 38 percent people think and leave me more school for the conflict. now another reason that people think in this direction is because indians have off leave been to by the west by the u. s. a for the constant threshold its force on india to condemn the rush shells offensive in ukraine also to north by discounted oil from russia. and now 60 percent of people in india

believe that the indian government should continue buying oil from russia and around 49 percent. see that india should continue to military exercises with more school. just to quickly underline that as far as new delhi and more school friendship is concerned, it has withstood the test of time and also geopolitical jones. in that sense, for example, in a 971, when india and barcas on had gone to war or the manager in crisis in eastern focused on countries, including the u. s. the all supported. they provided military as well as moral support to pakistan. and that's when india had sent out an issue with call and only one country came to india rescue. that was so with the union. so this ball in a sense, whole testimony of that people in india haven't forgotten history. ah,

no i, china is foreign ministry spokes person has slammed the us for the quote, illegal plundering of syrian oil, saying washington is interested in reaping the benefits of its actions, regardless of collateral damage, may go to should we're struck by the blatant see an egregious news of the u. s. plundering of syria. the level of us greed and stealing resources from syria is a striking this. it's generosity and giving out military aid, whether the u. s. gives or takes. it plunges other countries into turmoil and disaster. and the u. s. reaps its benefits for its hedge. ammonia and other interests may wander. yeah, china not holding back. beijing also accused washington of ruthlessly trump. pulling on the lies of the syrian people know that sounds damascus, say more than 80 percent of its daily or like put, was smuggled out of the country by us troops in the 1st half of 2022. while already this, your official state, the u. s. has taken 60 tanker trucks full of oil on wheat out of syria with

a u. s. sounds been present in syria since 2014 leaving a coalition focused on regime change involving the military's. busy of most nato countries and regional allies, i mean occupations of stealing syrian oil in 2021. the pentagon said that american troops weren't there to protect syrian oil fields except on rare occasions when civilians were involved. while syrian american journalist and political commentator steven sony st. washington's actions are stripping damascus of the resources of the country needs for it to recover. they are forbidding the city people from having added that. the fuel or for a warming to house is in the winter for tourney on the factory is for the rebuilding of syria. and that is particularly what a washington dc wants to a country like steel. yeah, that is a huge amount of money that is ah, that could have rebuilt year 2 or 3 times. ed doctor, we could have got

a medication medicine. we could have got dead stop our hospitals in syria. it could have got fuel for the cars. our schools and everything. we have a shortage exceeded as getting one out of electricity 24 hours, the ceiling people. i'm talking about the seating average people. they cannot and they don't have fuel. it don't have electricity to warm their houses. there are some areas in syria, like allah po, damascus, homeless, almira huh. in the central of syria, the temperature are below 0. they have no way of the warming to houses. nice south africa's foreign minister has coal for a dollar substituting global trade and is looking towards the bricks group of countries for the solution. artie contributor chris m spoke earlier with my colleague, rory sushi i'd want that might entail. we've always been concerned at

the fact that there is a dominance of the dollar and that we do need to look at all tentative. i think this is one of the reasons why we created the new development bank of brakes. i think what she's referring to is the fact that let's take south africa, the largest economy in africa, which is, you know, in so many ways such an important concept for our entire well to provide us with 70 bitches and resources that i think they just set up the fed up with the fact that their entire economy is dictated to by us fiscal. well, why, why do you think that set up, chris? because the dollar saves nations all around the world? is the king couldn't county? why would they be fed the fact that this policy of most countries that trade in us dollars have really extracted well from that country, as opposed to, let's take china is invested millions of trillions of dollars in the economies about the connection where it seems to be instead of extracts from their policy seems to be one of investment bank winning the hearts and minds the way china is working in africa, building infrastructure, schools, roads, hospitals, clinics,

these kinds of things. it's almost like winning the hearts and minds of the people that i play. i think that's totally the, the correct way to look at it. i mean, that's where we're from a town or a village in africa, and you'll down down the sound of mine or your work in some kind of mineral extraction and in the past. so you've really seen this western companies come employee and just extract that well, whereas they see a chinese company coming, employ them, and actually re invest that money in new homes. like you said, new vote you infrastructure, new schools, new hospitals, and things that really improve your life. i think if it were you or i'd, i'd, i'd know which side i'd want to want to be on. but chris talked to me about bricks, brazil, russia, india, china, south africa, potentially it's going to be saudi arabia, potentially, argentina, potentially iran. what are the implications that chris re bricks as it is right now, covers a far larger, expensive the well population that the united states could ever dream. it all of a different trade associations and different ways in which tried to manipulate the world. the fact is, if saudi join not, not organization who got south africa,

the largest economy in africa, in that we've got china, we've got these big brazil, the largest country in south america. if the saudis come in there and all these other countries that are requesting now to join, i mean, it's really unstoppable. and i don't know the fiscal level, which is probably more important. but i think this might be what the formalist of south africa is also referring to on a fiscal level, there's really nothing stopping these come countries coming together very similar to the year. right, right. the european union has its own currency the year, right? we could have the bricks, currency, right? at that point, that is incredibly powerful. and for me it's very, very difficult to see how the united states federal reserve could ever counter a currency with that much power in rehab. less than 2 months ago. would they agree to go essentially, to national currencies? it's almost like, by, by petro dollar. hello, petrow, you one. and yet all these opec countries, they're all joining on board here. they're all looking to trade in national currencies. this is like, this is like a snowball, roaring down a mountain. i'm getting massively more and more big a big a big a,

big as every day goes past here, it looks already to me anyway. it looks like the petro dollar, which is the spine of america's budget on foreign policy, is being shattered. yes, i agree with you entirely. i think we only had to see that as well from the last pay class meeting. we've been biden's visit suggested to c. b s. prior c. c c's. we saw in those meetings, we saw the opec plus count countries, which are obviously led by saudi arabia who chairs. but through basically say no, they did that with oil pricing. they refused to lower the price. they said, we can't do that because we're not going to gamble with our economies anymore. we're not going to allow you to be tight to off through the us dollar, which is exactly as you pointed out how they've done it, to dictate how we run our fiscal policies and how we look after our own people in our own country. meanwhile, so it's africa is foreign minister also condemned to us build design to punish african countries for any cooperation they have with moscow calling. it's an unlawful initiative. i believe the girl should really be killed her because i think

it's totally unwarranted. i think it's an intrusion that goes against international law, and we've made this clear to our colleagues in the united states. we even met with the drafter of the initial legislation and indicated our fence with which we view this particular proposed piece of legislation. it's called the malign russian activities in africa, eggs, what we in africa called the anti african bill. and those were the words that have been used by several commentators to describe exactly what happened last year in the house of representatives in the united states. the bill got an overwhelming majority support in congress infected was bipartisan winning by some 419 volt to 9 and it was passed through. but the interesting part is what happened to that

bill as it was slightly seem to be going through is way to the senate. and then ceramic was, i had a working visit to the united states and he and his father and his foreign minister doctrinally to ponder poor. it is squarely to the americans that this is an anti africa bill that they cannot force africans to choose, that africans have a right to determine their own development and determine their own partners. we have been lamenting that bill ever since it came, and before that trip, by sort of a late last year in november, it was said by some of the officials in the white house that, that prison a joe biden will take as much time as possible to delay this bill to make sure that it never ends up on his desk to possibly try and stop in with, in the senate. but it really looks at anybody who is potentially making friendships with, with russia and south africa, has a vested interest, especially when it comes to russia as part of the brakes. membership and south

africa has been really keen to really leverage on some of the memberships that you find within breaks to make them come up issues that are rather continent wide. they've continuously encourage the chinese to invest more on the continent, and they continuously look towards russia as part of the military fortification of south african army. and here is the lady ponder, speaking about what they hold to bring as part of their chairmanship, which they took over just at the beginning of this year. the chairmanship of bricks which they will be holding until the end of the year. we very thrilled that the progress of character, of the forum has been recognized and that many countries wish to be part of it. because there is concern in the world about a changing geo politics and almost a unit quote, polar framework where one or 2 regions or countries wish to be

dominant in terms of ideology and political thought. so the fact that there are countries, especially in the developing world that have recognized that greeks offers an alternative because we don't force ideas on anyone. we discuss cooperation, we see global amity. we see more and more that russia is getting and traced on the continent as well, becoming a member of, of preference, especially when it comes to issues of security. as we've seen around this a hell region with some of the numerous country there that have been really taken over by the insurgency in islamist extremism that has been part of that region and is not surprising. but the lady, pandora picked this moment to give this interview because she's always been measured. always been deliberate, and never gives an interview for its own sake. now because of sanctions

against afghanistan and the financial toll their taking, unless in the region say the taliban government cannot control the numbers of local people growing poppies on trading opium. the taliban itself stresses it's the previous government, which is responsible for the extent of the current opium problem. laura horner to her right at the beginning when the islamic government had taken control of kabul in afghanistan and victory was announced. the supreme leader of the taliban declared an immediate ban on all kinds of drugs. the seating of narcotics was no longer allowed. following these orders, we have not allowed any new opium or hashish crops in any districts of the country . whenever some minor violations came up, the taliban took immediate action to burn the crops during the 20 year rule of the previous regime, narcotics were being produced on a large scale in afghanistan. the law against the production of opium poppy was not strictly imposed. our government stood up against this. with conviction,

strong will and determination. we activated our counter narcotics force and seized a large quantity of hashish, heroine, cocaine, and alcohol. considering these efforts, we hope to fully stop the drug problem soon. while after they tell up on return to power in 2021, all the financial assets of the states maintained in u. s. and european banks where fruit not includes at $2000000000.00 in europe and $7000000000.00 in the u. s. most western donors, including the world bank, have also stopped sending aid to the country. despite that, the taliban government still paid about $5000000.00 to the world bank to service afghanistan's, that last summer. the western economic pressure has only worse in the countries opium trafficking problem. the taliban say they initially targeted the illegal industry, but despite the ref.